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Useful guidelines when having students to your home

• Here's some starters: have an ending time, main floor only, only NA beverages and wine, music off at 9:00

Should I apply to a PhD Program or wait?

• Here's something to share with any top students who have shown an interest.

Thank a mentor (with style)  

• Call and thank a non-obvious person who helped you out when you were younger.  Here's how to do so it will really be appreciated.

Write a syllabus that students love

• Annotations of a well-liked syllabus with other things to also consider: class previews, dropping the lowest grade, a screen down policy, moving final projects to the midterm, staggering office hours, and so on

Which PhD student will be most successful?

• Maybe it's the ones who experience the most variety and who ask the most questions.  Ideas on how students can do this and how advisors can encourage this.

30 years of useful academic lessons (learned the hard way)

• #14 "You can either read a lot or write a lot, but you can't do both." 

What one Nobel Prize hopeful is most proud of

• Being an attentive son during his parents' last years

Choose the best PhD advisor

• Most of us should pick our best friend as our advisor, and choose our favorite cousin and best uncle as our other committee members.

Get Things Done using a
​ 3-3-3 Weekly Recap

• Each Friday, write down 3 things you finished, 3 things you're working on, and 3 things you're waiting on.

How Not to retire from academia

• Your legacy could go far beyond your vita and what your field "rewards." Some ways to make the stretch.

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